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LTEC 5510 Week 7


Week 7 Blog

You have completed a rough version of ½ of your full course now. Have you had to make revisions to your design based on the structure of the LMS? How well is the design model working for you?

I have made several revisions based on the structure of the Canvas LMS. The standard 16-week master’s degree course in the UNT Learning Technologies program requires a lot less per module than my 6-week course.  I have found that I need section headers for each module just to divide all the assignments.  I might take each subdivision and just create a module a day.


One of the other challenges when creating this online course is that I am technically only the designer of the course. I can not think of myself as an instructor. Eventually, I will create job aids for future instructors, but I am creating this course with the idea that it will be modified, often extensively.

The planning that I put into the instructional design document has been helpful. It provides structure to my course. I feel I underestimated the number of assignments I needed to put into this course to make it work. I have already added significantly more videos and assignments than I originally had added.


Whereas my original plan was to create each week, and move on, I am finding it easier to create a skeleton of the entire course, and then filling in the assignments.  I have all six modules created. I intend to do all my discussion board posts, and then do my screencasts. This method seems more efficient for me. I can see how such a strategy does not work as well for an instructor creating a course while teaching it at the same time.


The feedback provided by my professor has been very useful. I need to add more of a hook into the course. I am overusing videos.  I have added much more detailed instructions each week, and that seems to have given me more focus when creating my course.


Whereas I would like to have a more inquiry-based lesson, much of my previous teaching material is not built that way.  It is hard to transition for one way to another. I also need to add more laboratory type of learning. The game-based learning his helpful, but not necessarily sufficient.

I feel like I finally have the hang of creating the course. Now all I need to do is put the hard work into the making the course. Adding material is so much faster when you don’t have to look up how to do everything.  I am looking forward to finishing this course.

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